Will we be traveling again in September? That said the chief doctor of the USA, Anthony Fauci
There’s a reasonable chance we can travel more freely between the U.S. and the U.K. by the end of the summer, America’s chief medical advisor told ITV News.
Asked by News At Ten Presenter Tom Bradby If people could expect to travel more freely between the two countries again by September this year, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, he thinks this is “a reasonably good prediction”.
However, while saying he hoped that travel between nations could resume soon, Dr. Fauci added that he couldn’t predict when exactly that might be.
“You really can’t tell because things happen, variations happen, things happen in terms of infection,” he said.
He went on to say that thanks to Boris Johnson’s “prudent” decision, Britain could be in a “very favorable” position by the end of the summer England’s Freedom Day move to June 21st.
“The UK has, in my opinion, prudently withdrawn a bit,” said Dr. Fauci.
“I think if more people get vaccinated and the people who got a single dose to make sure they got their second dose, I think the UK will be in a very good position if we can.” End of the summer.”
The infectious disease expert also warned that richer countries must come together to help countries that do not have the resources to vaccinate their population – or a new variant of Covid could emerge and find its way back to the UK and the US.
The US doctor said coronavirus variants should “always be taken seriously” as there will always be uncertainty about how existing vaccines will handle them.
He said we were “very lucky” that the Alpha variant, which is native to Kent, and the Delta variant, which is native to India, were sensitive to the vaccines currently in use.
We are “very lucky” that the existing vaccines can handle the alpha and delta variants, says Dr. Fauci
Dr. Fauci served as an advisor to seven US presidents during his 50-year public health career.
In January the doctor said US radio station NPR that science made him talk about the pandemic while the Trump administration got “in a little bit of trouble”Former President Donald Trump had described the Covid experts as part of a group of “idiots” and a “disaster” and suggested that Dr. Dismiss Fauci after the election.
But Mr. Trump lost and Dr. Fauci remains in office. He said the goal in the United States is to get as many people as possible vaccinated.
In the United States, he said, some states have done better than others in introducing vaccinations.
New York, which has now given 70% of adults at least one dose of a Covid vaccine, will be able to open up better than some of the southern states, where the majority of people are still unvaccinated, he said.
On Tuesday, the US passed the dire milestone of 600,000 Covid deaths and recorded a further 219 deaths.
The country has a total of 33.3 million cases since the pandemic began, with 7,856 new infections as of Tuesday.
About 64.6% of the adult population have had at least one vaccination.
On Tuesday, California and New York lifted most of their remaining restrictions and join other states in reopening for the summer.
When asked if Covid-19 could be under control by September 2022, Dr. Fauci: “I think that will be the case in countries like the UK and the United States and other European Union countries.
“But it will really only depend on the degree of successful vaccination.”
Could Covid-19 be under control and the pandemic over by September 2022?
He continued, “If we come together as a global community and use resources to preserve those countries that do not have the resources that Britain and the United States have to vaccinate those countries, I believe that we can up to that To do in 2022.
“If we don’t do it so successfully, it may take a little longer because whenever there is the dynamic of viruses, anywhere in the world, there is always the danger that a variant will come out that will come back and complicate things in the UK as well as in the United States. “
US President Joe Biden has pledged to Donate 500 million vaccine doses to lower-income countries and the UK announced that it would donate 100 million excess vaccines.
